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I hate a parade!
Chicago's annual St. Patrick's Day parade will step off at noon Saturday from Balbo and Columbus drives in Grant Park and head north about half a mile to Monroe Drive. You couldn't pay me to be there. Contrary to the words of the famous song, I hate a...
Tags: Chicago Reader, Apple iPod, Grant Park, Festive Events, Arts and Culture
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Quick 'n' dirty sex advice: spring edition
Welcome to spring! It’ll still be cold for two more months, but that doesn’t mean we can’t dream about putting our ski masks away and of summer hookups to come. With a new season comes a new quick ‘n’ dirty column, advice for...
Tags: David Carradine
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Eschew on this: The grand marshal of world-weariness says it’s OK to hate parades and stay home
Change of SubjectFriday's print column Chicago’s annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade will step off at noon Saturday from the intersection of Balbo and Columbus Drives in Grant Park and head north about half a mile to Monroe Drive. You couldn’t pay me...... -
The growing but quiet acceptance of regifting
By some accounts, most Americans have done it. They've repacked, rewrapped and resent unwanted presents to a new recipient. A survey in October 2011 by home fashion retailer HomeGoods found that more than half of the 1,000-plus respondents had regifted,...
Tags: American Express Company
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Financial guidance vs. folly
Whom can you trust for money advice? It's a fundamental yet complicated question that's getting attention recently with publication of a controversial new book, "Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry." Author Helaine...Tags: Financial Planning, Finance, Economy, Business and Finance, Authors, Ethics
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Shinn's 'Teddy Ferrara' stuck on campus
One of the problems with plays dominated by collegiate sexuality — and there is no shortage of graphic undergraduate sex in Christopher Shinn's “Teddy Ferrara” — is that if you are a few years removed from that particular time of...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Rutgers University, Teaching and Learning, Suicide, Arts and Culture
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Ravinia's warmth in winter
You know an interesting evening is brewing when it starts in Billy Corgan's Highland Park tea shop, with the rock singer/businessman holding forth with a hopeful conversation about bringing new cultural offerings to the north suburbs. The conversation...
Tags: Ravinia Festival, Media Industry, Entertainment Events
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Advice: Do I tell him I'm not attracted?
I currently am dating a friend’s brother who is a complete sweetheart. Here's the problem: I am not attracted to him. We have been together for three months and only had sex twice, and both times I have not enjoyed it. He's on the heavy side, has...
Tags: Mental Health
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Mail Call - Jan. 28
“The most memorable answer I ever read from Dear Abby was in response to the woman who wanted to go to law school, but hesitated because she would be 50 by the time she finished. Dear Abby wrote, ‘And how old will you be if you don’t go?...Tags: Barack Obama, Elections, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Republican Party, China
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Savage Love: Double-Crossed
A friend of mine on the opposite coast is a crossdresser considering transitioning. He came out to a female friend he had known for a long time but hadn't seen in a while, and she told her that she wanted her to come to her house fully dressed for some...
Tags: Twitter, Inc., The New York Times, Ann Landers, HIV, Social Media
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Pauline Friedman Phillips dies at 94; original 'Dear Abby'
Dear Abby: "What would you do with a man who refuses to use a deodorant, seldom bathes, and doesn't even own a toothbrush?" "Absolutely nothing," she replied. The wry answer from Abigail Van Buren — the pen name of Pauline Friedman Phillips...
Tags: University of California, Los Angeles, Periodicals, Feminism, Cary Grant, Substance Abuse
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'Dear Abby' advice columnist Pauline Phillips dies at 94
L.A. NOWPauline Friedman Phillips, who as Abigail Van Buren -- "Dear Abby" — for more than 40 years dispensed advice to newspaper readers worldwide on everything from snoring spouses to living wills, has died. She was 94....
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